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The Fourth Estate

A History of Women in the Middle Ages

Shulamith Shahar author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:1st Feb '16

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Did women really constitute a `fourth estate' in medieval society and, if so, in what sense? In this wide-ranging study Shulamith Shahar considers this and the whole question of the varying attitudes to women and their status in western Europe between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries.

`Wide ranging and scholarly.'Times Higher Education Supplement

ISBN: 9781138135468

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 521g

392 pages

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